Em termos reais, o preço do petróleo está ao mesmo nível do verificado em 1973 (ver aqui também). No entanto, de modo diferente do verificado em 1973 e em 1979, a economia mundial está a encaixar bem as consequências do aumento do petróleo. O Economist.com, no seu Economics focus , discute as razões, na base de investigação económica recente: "They come to similar conclusions: oil shocks do not hurt as much because oil is used less intensively than before, because the economy is more flexible and because central banks are better at controlling inflation."
A-propósito do uso menos intensivo de energia refere (ver gráfico acima) refere: "Rich countries use less than half as much oil as they did in 1970 for each inflation-adjusted dollar of GDP. So although prices in real terms have returned to levels last seen in the 1970s, their impact is not as powerful when set against the diminished economic importance of oil..."
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